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Today I killed my best friend.. 😭🐈 Well… almost. Read this.. ——— My name is Liam Murphy. I’m 38 years old. Dublin, Tallaght. I live alone and count every cent between the rent and the cost of keeping the car running so I can get to work. I got Oscar from an animal shelter five years ago. Back then I was living in a rented two-bedroom flat and I had a wife who left a few months later. At the shelter they put him in my arms — still a young cat, short grey fur, soft ears and two warm eyes looking at me like he had known me his whole life. That day I took him home with me. Since then there’s been everything: hard shifts, shit evenings, constantly trying to make it to the end of the month. The nights when I came home completely wrecked and he was the only one on the sofa — lifting his head, coming over to me, rubbing against my legs and starting to purr.. The only one who never left. ——— Three weeks ago Oscar stopped eating. Then he could no longer jump properly onto the sofa or the windowsill. One morning I found him on the floor, breathing strangely. Fast. Shallow. I put him in the carrier and went straight to the vet. Tumour. Big and aggressive. He needed surgery immediately. The vet looked at me, took off his glasses, cleaned them calmly and said: — The situation is critical. There are only two options: either we try a complicated emergency operation for €1,200, or… to stop him from suffering, we would have to put him to sleep for €80. Pause. He didn’t try to soften anything. Just the cold reality: either you find the money for the operation, or you watch your cat suffer until the end. 😢 — You have five days to decide, before it’s too late. Five days to decide whether my cat lives or dies. Like it was just the deadline for some bill. I walked out into the clinic corridor with Oscar in my arms. Five kilos that felt like a tonne at that moment. I sat down on the bench. He rested his head on my arm, like he always does. I opened my AIB app. 47 euro.
